April 22, 2013 // 1:57 pm - Following up on their previous update, today PlayStation 3 developer Raptor399 has announced that PS3 Media Server 1.81.0 is officially released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!

if you use it with showtime 3.0 you dont even have to use the on the fly reencoding (nor any other remuxxing etc) of the ps3 media server as it streams mkv directly... its not yet perfect thought... 720p playback works quite well, 1080p starts to stutter where it does not when transcoding mkv for the "normal" xmb media server playback.. i found a renderer conf working for me... over here: ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11424

p.s. thanks to sportsstar99 for that... and btw the reason it stutters at 1080p is that (at least showtime shows that status) the cpu is too slow... dunno how that could be since untouched stuff runs just fine but im not that deep into that kinda stuff

Subtitles stay within confines of original frame when using overscan compensation

Made transcoding tab resizing consistent for all sizes

Fixed DTS audio support with FFmpeg

MEncoder supports DTS-ES (6.1 channels) audio

Handles unknown audio channels

Change maximum number of plugins to 30 from 4

Improved MP4 support

New Korean translation (thanks, mrahn80)

Fixed bug where config sometimes wouldn't save on Windows 7

Upgrade Notes:

For 1.23.0 and above:

Just uninstall the older version and install newer one

For versions prior to 1.23.0:

To retain your old settings you may have to copy your old config file/s to a new directory.

To find out where the new directory is on your computer, run the program and go to the Traces tab and look on the 14th line, the line that says "Profile directory:", that is the folder your config files should be saved now.

Ok - so i guess they saw my comment about Deank's release speed - 1.25.0 is available now (including a MAC version!)

From the announcement:-

Overscan compensation feature added for MEncoder

Return of the official OS X build, thanks for your patience!

MEncoder no longer crashes when using more then 8 cores

New build script for OS X that builds all dependencies (big thanks to Raptor399)

French translation fixed

For versions prior to 1.23.0:

To retain your old settings you may have to copy your old config file/s to a new directory.
To find out where the new directory is on your computer, run the program and go to the Traces tab and look on the 14th line, the line that says "Profile directory:", that is the folder your config files should be saved now.